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CULT19013 - Sexualities and Representation

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This course looks at the proliferation of sexual identities in contemporary society and at the ways such identities are represented in literary and mass media texts. Emphasis will be placed on the challenges posed to patriarchally directed heteronormativity by the diverse sexualities that thus present themselves.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level Not Applicable
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the unit.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

There are no availabilities for this unit on or after Term 3 - 2024

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 25%
2. Written Assessment 25%
3. Written Assessment 50%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2013 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 90.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 35.71% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Moodle student evaluation.
Feedback
Students liked the essay based nature of the course.
Recommendation
That the course continue to be essay based.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Moodle student evaluation.
Feedback
Students liked the way in which the course dealt with real world issues.
Recommendation
That the course maintain its strong real world focus.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Moodle student evaluation.
Feedback
Students appreciated the freedom to choose their own texts and construct their own essay topics within the general course parameters.
Recommendation
That this practice be maintained.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Critically discuss representations of various sexualities across a range of cultural sites paying particular attention to the ideological standpoints that underpin such representations and critiquing these standpoints from within contemporary queer /postmodern theorising of gender and sexuality.
  2. Articulate key issues of social justice and individual freedom raised by representations of sexualities which challenge heteronormativity.

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